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Heroines of Fiction

Gelesen von Jim Locke

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the time. (Summary by Jim Locke) (17 hr 40 min)

Chapters

Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century

24:02

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Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina

23:18

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Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's

26:43

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Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet

28:02

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Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland

32:15

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Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny P…

27:31

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Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe

23:53

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Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton

23:59

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Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines

26:28

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Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's

25:30

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Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens

20:53

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Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period

25:08

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Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines

28:22

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Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne

30:31

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Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda

32:42

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Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines

26:43

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Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines

22:50

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Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

24:20

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Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte

24:09

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Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia

27:36

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Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines

30:30

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Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines

29:35

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Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel

42:17

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Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke

30:41

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Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster

31:45

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Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale

35:02

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Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly

24:02

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Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie

35:33

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Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials''

24:16

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Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont''

23:09

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Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller

28:42

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Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines

37:22

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Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power

35:47

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Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White

27:02

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Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie D…

18:42

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Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe

22:41

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Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's J…

27:29

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Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines

30:47

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